Friday, January 10, 2014

LISTEN FOR YOUR COMPANION, THEY SING WITHIN YOU.

EVERY TURN MEANS
CHANGE

Somewhere back behind I walked away from all thoughts of me.
Everything I had been brought up to be, the loser, the failure, the stupid one.
I began subtly at first to think of you, how it is that what I do affects you.

Change never comes easy especially as I began to see how everything went wrong
with me. Loaded up with expectations of things I could never be, not forgiving my past held my true I from becoming what I was born to be.

Now as the days pass bringing me ever closer to the day I die, I know that the
change is complete with my thoughts ever thinking of you first not I. I am
become one, the only me, I was ever meant to be.

It has been a road long and hard, pained for sure but always
walked to know a pure freedom few before have come to see; to feel the presence
of you walking along, strolling through the ups and downs with me.

It would be so much better if this road was not so empty but rather so full of
many that only once thought of me who’ve come to be thinking, living more like
you. Easier it is to know I will die having thought more of you than I.

I went out in the balmy morning, the sign said ten below,
pshaw! It felt more like fifteen, twenty ‘neath zero *shrug* I’d been there
before. I didn’t care that tree limbs were crackling with cold as the wind
bumped them. I only began to give a shit when my cigarette stuck to my lip.

Rosaria there are many names for the paces I walk, but I can only remain in them for so long until I see something that needs saying and no one wants to say it. The beauty is that once one reaches a place, if they are wise they commit the map back to memory. Thank you dear woman--not the cold though.

Alice "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." I believe this with all of my energy and faith.

I wrote that about the smoke just as I was going out to have one...it was one of those -10 days. I was at sea in the north Atlantic in February one time and it was -40 and I had to do 20 minutes of outside watch--now that was cold.

Chris i don't know...I have been smoking for more than 50 years and it hasn't been cold enough to find a reason to not smoke yet...but there were a couple of times the rolling didn't go so well because the fingers wouldn't work right. I think it's called any part of the great prairies. Does the wind ever stop?

Well....?Was your wife kind enough to pour scalding coffeeon your lip to free it loose?Loved your Frigid 55Mark, you are a simple man, with a complicated brain.Your after thoughts are more complex than most human's ponderingsYou are a great gift to us allThanks for your great supportHave a Kick Ass Week-End...G

Grace Darling that is the only reason we have more than fig leaves for clothes...so us smokers broomed out of the house by our loving partners, know they won't be widows before we finish our smokes.

One time i was so cold when i came back in the wife put me in bed and covered me with every blanket she could find. I was still shivering and asked her to get in with me and her body heat would help warm me...she wouldn't even let one of the dogs get in there with me...wouldn't turn the furnace up either. I survived to smoke another day.

Mark, the first one touched me. It is not my death that I fear but the loss of my beautiful wife who is really my touchstone to so much. I see her getting older too. And cannot imagine my life without her.

…we become more "fine tuned", don't' we? Very moving first piece and the 2nd… well, I laughed but I also knew it was true! I will never understand that kind of addiction or habit… I just HATE cold cold weather.

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